LaWanda Page, who played "Aunt Esther" Anderson with her Bible-toting fearsome self on the 1970s television comedy "Sanford & Son," died Saturday at Centinela Hospital Medical Center from complications of diabetes. She was 81. She played the role from 1973 to 1977 on "Sanford & Son." Page also appeared as aunt Esther in the short-lived spinoff "The Sanford Arms" in 1977. She also starred in "Detective School" in 1979 and "B.A.D. Cats" in 1980. 

She was born in Cleveland on Oct. 19, 1920, Page began her show business career as a dancer and chorus girl on the club circuit where she was billed as "The Bronze Goddess of Fire" because she lit cigarettes with her fingertips, swallowed fire and touched flaming torches to her body. Childhood friend Redd Foxx (also dead) gave her the biggest break when he recommended her for the aunt Esther role. She is survived by a daughter. 

Dr. Dre Being Sued for $500 Million. Well isn't this a bitch? Wasn't this the same Dr. Dre who was at the forefront saying Napster was nothing but a music stealing fraternity? Well what do you call this you sample stealing fuck? The Truth Hurts doesn't it? Dr. Dre has been sued by entertainment Attorney Dedra Davis for Saregama India Limited, an RPG Group company, based in Calcutta, India. The dispute is about the sampling from the movie "Jyoti" (Pramod Films), and the name of the artist singing the song that was sampled, "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai" from the movie soundtrack is Lata Mangeshkar. The singer who bills herself as Truth Hurts finds in her song "Addicted" the sampled track that is at issue. Attorney Davis, on behalf of her client, requests that every copy of the infringing work, “Addictive,” be impounded and removed from the stores, internet, radio, television, and any other medium.  She also requests that an injunction be granted to stop the continuation of the infringement, that ALL the profits be handed over to her client and that the court make a declaration of the ownership of the composition “Addictive”. 

The idea of including the track was that of producer DJ Quik, who underlaid the Hindi track, "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai," and later vocals were added with a rap from artist Rakim.